Posts Tagged ‘Disorders’

There’s going to be a lot of space in this update because I’ve copied and pasted from Word and for some reason the format has stretched out. At some point I’ll train myself up re IT skills so I can reformat stuff – but for now, please bear with me. 😉

Poet at Rest

Adrenalin Junkie.

Let no-one fool you:

It’s not a roller coaster ride.

You’re in an aeroplane

and you’re feeling tense;

You have an immense sense

of what’s to befall you:

You concentrate intensely

on your every strand

of knowledge, training,

Imagination

And you feel good. So good.

The door is by your side.

All your need is this:

Slide it open.

And you do. The blast of air

that nearly pulls you out,

sucks you in against the walls

of your every hope, stuns you.

You can hardly gather breath.

But you have your eyes on the sky –

It’s vast, it’s blue, it’s white, it calls you –

And of course you go, fly,

leave your parachute behind.

Wow! The air is clear, cold,

everything you ever thought it could be.

You’re free and you’re falling

Through air.

English: Cliffs at Gaitnip In the late afternoon sun. Wideford Hill in the centre, above the line of the cliffs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

MMus Ltd. is a community based project group delivering specialist services to mental health users. Initially this will be delivered within the west midlands (December 2013 – June 2014). It will then be rolled out nationally, then internationally. Specialist services are to be determined on a case-by-case basis. Money for this purpose will be funded by grants and funds raised by MMus’ Charity Trust.

The current Mental Health system works for some people and fails others. By using a catch all process, the MHS delivers its care in a way that’s far too general. Specific issues that make a huge difference in someone’s treatment are often missed because those issues fall outside of the standard mental health flowchart. MMus will try and address this imbalance. By promoting and creating specific life events tailored to a specific user’s needs, their difficulties will be healed. We expect to find exponentially improved recovery rates and to enjoy hearing about the thriving lives which proceed from our healing work.

Here are two hypothetical situations

Paul is a sufferer of depression. He is currently being treated in the usual pharmacological way. Psychologists have long reported that Paul’s issues derive from a lack of self-worth; he is a person who lacks self-esteem in a wide range of areas of his life.

What could help Paul ?

Paul needs to feel valued by others to truly value himself. A 10 min chat with Paul reveals that he likes nature and gardening. So MMus arrange for the city council to grant a space in the central Park to build a small garden. Paul is asked to help create this garden with other MMus users who share the same aims. The garden is created and Paul sees a triumph. MMus then gives support to Paul and he eventually finds a job as a park warden. Moreover – he is so delighted with the success of MMus methods that he joins the organisation and takes on new clients with mental health issues he can relate to and who enjoy gardening…. Thus begins a cascade of ‘self-help’.

Lucy suffers from an aggressive personality, a diagnosed personality disorder. She is on a low dose of anti-psychotic medication and anti-depressants. She has been sectioned twice and she now just sits at home worrying and becoming more reclusive. As far as the Mental health System goes she gets a visit once a week by a support worker. MMus Gets a grant from the Government to run an art workshop for a week. Lucy is invited and discovers a love for carving wood. This then gives Lucy a objective to focus on and MM will then help promote and share her work.

These are two very Happy Ending scenarios and, in the MHS, for every 2 people you will help there will be 8 people you can’t. Our aim is to change these statistics . We believe that we will reverse these statistics.

MMus Is a way of targeting specific care shots to specific people whether it be de-cluttering, helping with a driving licence etc etc. It’s the little things in life that really make the difference, these lead on to the more remarkable changes and ultimately is a cheaper way of getting people back into society that constantly giving them mind altering drugs.

MMus is trying to break the habit of “managing people” and change this to “inspiring people.”‘

…in relation to last year. Action needs taking in relation to what happened to Janie Greville between February and April 2011. The mental health services listened to protests and anger from distant members of her family in relation to a blog she was publishing.

They took notice to the degree that they persecuted her until they had actually broken into her home in the middle of the night where she was in bed, frightened of this invasion, and took her to Worcester Psychiatric Hospital where there was no bed for her to rest on.

THIS REPORT IS AN UPDATED VARIANT OF THE ORIGINAL, PUBLISHED ON ‘SILENCELOL.WORDPRESS.COM’ IN MARCH 2012.

The ‘interview’ that took place in her home was a farce driven by a foregone conclusion.

Cheers – Crisis Over, Champagne Living Beginning

Her crimes had been to write the truth about a man where truth didn’t flatter him, and to have treated an uninvited ‘home treatment team’ member as if he was someone she was familiar with (she was – and the treatment was mutual, with one difference. He thought he had the right to decide what should and should not constitute the content of the visit. He decided that his boasting of his music should be concealed, and she did not. He reported this as ‘inappropriate behaviour’ and as a ‘symptom of mental illness.’)

The decision to imprison her had already been made. The ‘assessment’ was a mere formality.

Janie has ventured to ask family members how they feel about her going back, now, to complain in formal terms about this appalling incident and series of incidents around it. They are frightened. Every time they hear ‘mental health services’ they picture Janie being bundled into a hospital and then emerging from it in a suicidally depressed state. They just want to forget it.

Will they ever be able to, when Janie can be incarcerated at the call of anyone who doesn’t like what she says because it’s both true and inconvenient to their reputation? Or because they don’t like her un-English open-ness, or her ‘arty’ self presentation on occasion? Or her forthright manner, or her sharp tongue?

Isn’t it time she did stand up for the truth, for justice and to demonstrate the absurdity of psychiatry, at least in relation to her case?